Tralin’ in a happy place this weekend. In nature, we are all students of finding our place.

“I’ve heard from a bunch of people in our field who say, ‘Uh oh, are they training on my prompts?’” Dr. Shipman said. “We can’t not think about it.” ... '[A]fter Anthropic’s announcement last week, he is winding down his projects with Claude.' “I’m shutting down everything,” [Dr. Mestre] said.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 14h ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Pls share: Two tenure-track positions in Molecular Microbiology at Virginia Tech. I had a great visit there a couple of years ago! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

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Dolly Parton: "If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader". Felicitations to @jacquesravel.bsky.social - awardee of the 2026 Microbiome Medal, an annual honor for research and impact on the next gen.

The cantilever overhang at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Millennium Science Complex is insane structural engineering. We science in this starship.

It’s Wednesday. Time for a new episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast. Dr. Jasna Kovac joins the #QualityQuorum to talk about Listeria, biofilms, sociomicrobiology, and food processing. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @asm.org @microbetv.bsky.social youtu.be/6A1bgRmss6U?...

"pattern is observed in all components of the holobiont (host phenotype, epigenome, gene expression, symbiont photosynthetic efficiency, & microbiome composition) & underscores the potential for probiotic therapy" @reefgenomics.bsky.social @peixotoraquel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@symbionticism.bsky.social has always seen parts of me that are not evident to me. But I certainly am a microbial enthusiast, a microbial evangelist, and stalwart proponent of microbial outreach. Thank you, Seth. As always.

Our own modeling backs this paper up. There are more mathematical paths to speciation in a holobiont setting when we run the equations or the lab experiments. Strict, host-centric models put the blinders on to biological reality and potential. Great piece.

Trends in Genetics@cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Hologenomic interactions promote the higher-order evolvability of phenotypic complexity" by R. Alexander Pyron & colleagues FREE till Nov 1st at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nmLPcQbJI...

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Bacterial symbionts and the lightness of being a prokaryote - Nature Microbiology

Silvia Bulgheresi muses on how studying bacterial symbionts of worms and mammals made her question whether the absence of a nucleus enables cellular freedom, potentiating architectural innovation and ...

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Banger of a new RasgonLab study by Drs. Najmeh Nejat and Travis van Warmerdam on a new arthropod germline CRISPR delivery system. Knock-out AND knock-in by ORAL delivery! No more injections! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)

GEValT@gevaltcrispr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Meet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction! No more injections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

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Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

Very cool 🧵 and findings 🧪

Nick Stroustrup@nstroustrup.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did you know that the cells of old animals contain much less mRNA than the cells of young ones? Let me share with you some results from an ongoing project in the lab, where we are finding that a progressive depletion of total mRNA abundance is a crucial part of aging 1/22

New paper entitled “Phagocytosis of microbial symbionts supports embryonic nutrition in the sponge Halichondria panicea” is out now in @microbiomej.bsky.social! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Phagocytosis of microbial symbionts supports embryonic nutrition in the sponge Halichondria panicea - Microbiome

Background Animal development is frequently supported by microbial symbionts that contribute to host nutrition, metabolism, and physiology. While the functional importance of microbiomes in adult host...

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Fancy relative abundance measurements in your sequencing analyses and yet know there’s a problem with that? Our very own @inschool4life.bsky.social hammers this message and offers a robust solution. @psumbiome.bsky.social youtu.be/2KGJumvaKz0?...

Beyond Compositionality: Scale-Reliant Inference and ALDEx3 for Microbiome Data | Justin Silverman

YouTube video by One Health Microbiome Center at Penn State

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Structure and sequence fill evolutionary gaps for essential centromeric proteins. Work by @jeremyahollis.bsky.social, @irinakitop.bsky.social, & Jason Stonick. Article by Kelsey Woodruff. www.fredhutch.org/content/www/... Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Structure and sequence fill evolutionary gaps for essential centromeric proteins

Researchers in the Basic Sciences Division track evolutionary origins for an essential protein

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Excited to share new work from my lab showing that early-life colonization with C. difficile remodels the developing infant gut, published today in @science.org! This study was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: @haidermanzer.bsky.social and Alexa Semon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Early-life colonization with Clostridioides difficile remodels the developing gut

Clostridioides difficile causes severe disease in adults but commonly colonizes infants asymptomatically. The consequences of early-life colonization on host development remain unknown. In a neonatal ...

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This job ad is now live! Please share or apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52780 Screening of applicants begins Sept 15, 2026 #MicroSky #PhageSky #ScienceJobs

Postdoctoral Researcher - Lyme Disease Bacteriophage Biology

The Secor Lab seeks a postdoctoral researcher to investigate bacteriophage biology in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. The successful candidate will help define how phiBB-1 controls h...

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Patrick R. Secor@prsecor.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ll soon be #Hiring a postdoc to join the Secor Lab at Montana State University. This NIH-funded position will investigate phage biology in Lyme disease spirochetes. The official ad will be available soon. Please share with anyone who might be interested! #MicroSky #PhageSky 🔬🦠🧪🧫

Good tools lower activation energy. The @ehologenome.bsky.social Initiative profiles host and microbial genomes, and now EHItk makes exploring them effortless: a sleek Python toolkit to filter, query, and download a wild vertebrate hologenome with ease. academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

EHItk: a toolkit for accessing Earth Hologenome Initiative data resources

AbstractMotivation. The Earth Hologenome Initiative (EHI) is generating standardized datasets that jointly capture host genomic and microbial metagenomic—n

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When the high priest of microbiology issues a proclamation, you do two things. Listen and Implement.

Mark O. Martin@markowenmartin.bsky.social · 4w ago

I think that the "holobiont concept" is an important one for introductory biology courses. I am obviously not the person to write an essay to promote that point of view, but I have certainly pushed it in my courses, as you can see from the attached images. #Holobiont 1/2

“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” – Theodore Roosevelt

One of my favorite humans and microbiome scientists! @mysorekarlab.bsky.social visited the @psumbiome.bsky.social awards luncheon to celebrate our “one” community today; we walked through campus and into the secret science starship behind us.

Science on - How can one not be positive about that lineup? @psumbiome.bsky.social seminars are coming fast, including the Microbiome Medal Laureate Jacques Ravel, a founder in the microbiome field.

One Health Microbiome Center@psumbiome.bsky.social · last mo.

Fall seminars are here! 🍂🦠 Our 2026 lineup features exciting microbiome research from Penn State + experts from far and wide. 🌎 External seminars are open to the public via Zoom — DM us for the registration link! #Microbiome #OneHealth

A brand new Matters Microbial hosted by @markowenmartin.bsky.social features our very own @stl.bsky.social! This podcast dives into the role that the soil microbiome can play in terms of agriculture, moderating temperature, and protecting specific environments. ▶️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE7p...

Matters Microbial #137: The Living Skin of Our Planet

YouTube video by MicrobeTV

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Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

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ribosomologists of all colors take note 👇 a 28S rRNA variant that does not promote mRNA translation but 𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 it by blocking of the ribosomal exit tunnel 👀 «everything that can be regulated will be regulated» (murphy's law of molecular biology)

Sebastian Baumgarten@sebbaumgarten.bsky.social · last mo.

The singular job of all known ribosomes: synthesizing protein. Enter the malaria parasite. In our new work, we show that Plasmodium evolved an entire new kind that does just the opposite - inhibit mRNA translation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Become part of the ASM community! Join the world's leading microbial science community and receive 50% off 2026 membership when you use code 50OFF2026 at checkout. Don't miss this limited-time opportunity—offer ends Sept 30. asm.social/33n